Senior UI/UX Designer II

About the role

CGS is seeking a Senior UI/UX Designer to support a wide-ranging technical support initiative for a large Federal agency. The ideal candidate will lead full-scale UX design efforts, collaborate with federal practice engineers and clients, and create innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions.

Responsibilities

• Lead full-scale UX design efforts to include research, blueprinting, and evaluating existing systems
• Manage the planning, design, and implementation of multiple sites and applications across multiple clients simultaneously in a fast-paced environment
• Lead all phases of user research and analysis needed to inform the creation of highly usable web pages, application interfaces, and other dynamic solutions
• Collaborate with federal practice engineers and federal clients to define, design, and implement innovative, beautiful, intuitive solutions for use by our federal customer and their stakeholders
• Create wireframes, storyboards, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction and design ideas for websites and applications
• Create scalable design resources to aid in project collaboration and the expansion of ECS creative services

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Must be able to obtain a Public Trust
• Strong UX design experience (10+ years combined professional design experience)
• Advanced understanding of user personas, user flows, affinity mapping, and other research tools
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe xD, InDesign, Illustrator, and Photoshop
• Advanced coding knowledge (HTML, CSS, and JS)

Skills and attributes for success

• Results-oriented problem solver with high standards for quality, accuracy, attention to detail, and overall excellence
• Expertise in user research methodologies, user centered design principles and frameworks, and user interface design standards
• Experience evaluating existing systems and processes to identify UX issues and develop UX recommendations
• Experience designing web and mobile applications that are compliant with 508 and US Web Design System (USWDS) standards
• Experience prioritizing features while accounting for user goals and business requirements
• Experience carrying designs from start to finish, from wireframes to delivery of final high-fidelity UI mockups
• Experience establishing and maintaining rapid customer feedback loops to inform design at critical stages
• Self-starter, motivated, confident, and has ability to work independently as well as in a team environment
• Excellent interpersonal and client focused skills—interacts well with all levels of staff and partners with a positive and enthusiastic attitude
• Experience using Agile methodology to manage projects
• Experience creating and modifying data visualizations

Benefits

Contact Government Services (CGS) offers a comprehensive benefits package including health, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, a 401(k), flexible spending account (Health, Dependent Care, and Commuter), paid time off and observance of state/federal holidays, and more. CGS is committed to solving the most challenging and dynamic problems and values honesty, professionalism, and quality work.

Pay

Details on pay are not specified in this posting.

Schedule

Details on schedule are not specified in this posting.